Taking Charge of Your TV
Taking Charge of Your TV: A guide to critical viewing for parents and children
This informative booklet explains four key concepts of media literacy and how you can use them at home with your family. You will learn how to plan for a better TV viewing, by:
- Becoming more aware of what is behind the way that TV programs are produced
- Establishing limits on how much TV your family watches each week
- Developing family guidelines for program selection.
Video Clips - Taking Charge of Your TV
Seeing is believing! These short video clips demonstrate how easy - and how important - media literacy really is. Clips include
TV Smarts for Kids,
View Smart to Vote Smart (with
Viewer's Guide), and
Living Room Candidates (an opportunity to watch and analyze more than 250 commercials from every presidential campaign since 1952).
